Shader Transitions in Flex 4

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About This Episode

Former Adobe Flex SDK team member Chet Haase explores the new Pixel Bender-based effects in Flex 4, such as CrossFade and Wipe. Learn how to use these effects to create cool transitions in your Flex 4 applications.

Chet demonstrates how to use the new AnimateFilter effect in Flex 4 to animate transient filter effects such as blurring objects out. He also shows when AnimateFilter is not the right tool for the job.

A component can change its look between different states, like when the mouse is over it. In this video, former Adobe Flex SDK team member Chet Haase shows how Flex buttons do this to provide important visual cues to the user.

Former Adobe Flex SDK team member Chet Haase walks you through an application that animates a scrolling behavior. Animations happen automatically when you click on a scrollbar’s track or up/down buttons, but this case requires custom code.

Former Adobe Flex SDK team member Chet Haase demonstrates techniques of measuring the performance of animations, and shows how the performance of effects, render events, and the SWF frame rate relate to each other.

Flex makes it easy to create animated transitions, helping the user understand what is happening in the UI. Former Adobe Flex SDK team member Chet Haase shows how transitions and easing behavior improve the user experience.

Former Adobe Flex SDK team member Chet Haase shows how to use the new custom type interpolation abilities in Flex 4 effects for better animated resizing effects on the window of an Adobe AIR application.

In this video, former Adobe Flex SDK team member Chet Haase explores interpolation arbitrary types in Flex 4 effects, and explains how to use the new IInterpolator interface to create custom interpolators.

Former Adobe Flex SDK team member Chet Haase explores the new Pixel Bender-based effects in Flex 4, such as CrossFade and Wipe. Learn how to use these effects to create cool transitions in your Flex 4 applications.

Former Adobe Flex SDK team member Chet Haase demos the new AnimateFilter effect, which allows you to animate the properties of Flex filters over time to create rich animations for your Flex application.

Former Adobe Flex SDK team member Chet Haase explains how the new transform effects work in Flex 4 and how Move, Scale, and Rotate combine their operations internally to result in the correct behavior.

In this video, former Adobe Flex SDK team member Chet Haase explores the new Animate effect in Flex 4. This effect can handle animating multiple properties of arbitrary type and is the superclass of all the new effects in Flex 4.

Former Adobe Flex SDK team member Chet Haase introduces the color animation effect in the next version of Flex. He then compares RGB interpolation and HSB interpolation to find out which provides better color interpolation behavior.

Different visual effects require different motion. Former Adobe Flex SDK team member Chet Haase shows how to incorporate realistic movement into your animations by using various easing functions in Flex 3.

Doug continues to cover best practices for accessing data in object-oriented programming. In this video, he uses the "get" command to make his custom class' private method act like a regular public variable.

Sr. Product Manager Tom Barclay gives you the first look at the next generation of Adobe Flash Professional, codenamed Hellcat. Its 64-bit architecture makes it faster and more reliable than ever before. Tom also shows you the updated user interface which has been streamlined for better efficiency.